CSUN TAKES HOME A TITLE : CSUN 75 COPPIN STATE 59.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services Brian Heinle sparked Cal State Northridge for the second straight night, scoring 19 points and grabbing 13 rebounds as the Matadors knocked off Coppin State 75-59 on Friday night to capture the PowerBar Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. championship. It was CSUN's first Division I in-season tournament title and its first tournament championship since 1983 when it won a tourney tourney: see tournament. hosted by Occidental oc·ci·den·tal or Oc·ci·den·tal adj. Of or relating to the countries of the Occident or their peoples or cultures; western. n. A native or inhabitant of an Occidental country; a westerner. Noun 1. . ``No one expected us to win this tournament,'' CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge coach Bobby Braswell Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. said. ``We responded to adverse situations.'' Heinle did most of his work in the first half, scoring 12 points during a 17-4 run at the start of the game. That opened up a 26-14 lead with from which Coppin State (1-5) didn't recover. ``That's what we expect of him all the time,'' Braswell said of Heinle. ``He stepped up and made big plays.'' ``Our team came to win,'' said the 6-foot-9, 225-pound sophomore who scored all 19 points in the second half and had 10 rebounds in the Matadors' come-from-behind 89-79 opening-night victory over host Hawaii. ``I really love playing under pressure.'' Cold shooting over the first 20 minutes hurt the Eagles. They made only 8 of 31 shots (26 percent) and did not get to the foul line foul line n. 1. Baseball Either of two straight lines extending from the rear of home plate to the outer edge of the playing field and indicating the area in which a fair ball can be hit. 2. . Northridge made 9 of 12 free throws. Another burst, this time 13-2 at the start of the second half with Jeff Parris getting six points, gave Northridge (5-2) its biggest lead at 43-21. Andre Larry contributed 17 points for the winners with Fred Warrick leading Coppin State with 15. CSUN's Rico Harris, who had 17 against against Hawaii, did not play against Coppin State because of a hip pointer A hip pointer is a contusion (bruise) on the pelvis caused by a direct blow to an iliac crest. Contact sports are a frequent cause of this type of injury. A hip pointer bruise usually causes bleeding into the hip abductor muscles, which move legs sideways, away from the . CSUN planned to stay in Hawaii before returning to campus Sunday. The Matadors travel to Brigham Young next weekend for BYU's tournament. CSUN faces Southern Utah in Friday's first round and plays either the Cougars of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. Tech next Saturday. The two wins in Hawaii pushed CSUN's streak to four, its longest such stretch since the 1996-97 season. CSUN had a 61-point second half against the Rainbows in the opener. ``We did everything wrong you could do wrong in the first half. We didn't defend and we didn't rebound,'' Braswell said of that game. ``I think part of it was our guys were too fired up at the beginning. They didn't give us a lot of respect. Not at all. We played harder and smarter in the second half. We played good defense and just played strong and aggressive.'' |
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